Manager Quality Control

Seeking a supply chain and purchasing management role in the consumer discretionary, industrial, or automotive manufacturing industries by leveraging strong skills in contract negotiations, project management, quality control management (ISO9000), manufacturing and engineering. Managed commodity categories of plastic injection moldings, metal stampings, die castings, electro-mechanical components and electronics.

Key Skills: AT Kearney STRATEGIC SOURCING – REVERSE eAUCTION – LOW COST REGIONS SOURCING – VALUE ANALYSIS ENGINEERING – NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT– SUPPLIER QUALITY DEVELOPMENT– GEOMETRICAL DIMENSIONING & TOLERANCING – PRODUCT COST MODELING – BUSINESS NEGOTIATION - MULTI LINGUAL

Praxair Inc – Tonawanda, NY14226 - (RETURNED TO PA FOR MEDICAL REASON) Jan 2015 – current

Sr Sourcing Manager

Oversee the purchase of capital equipment employed in Air Separation Process. Provide global (ASIA, NA, SA, EU) commodity strategy alignment with industrial chillers, water pumps, cooling towers, regenerative heaters, etc. Formulate Terms and Conditions; pricing framework agreements, negotiate compensatory payments for non-conformance supplier actions. Manage supplier relationships to assure prompt attention to service call, competitive pricing for project bids, etc. Received merit award for excellent job performance and leadership role.

Self employed-Short term assignments (Supply Chain and Purchasing Consulting) 2012 – 2014

(Recession period with residential housing crisis)

Short-term contracting projects with OEM manufacturers in the commercial trucking market. Clients include Purkey Electric, Gorte, Optronics and others. Manage strategies to improve the purchasing performance of supply sources in low-cost regions. Commodities include LED exterior and interior lighting, wire harnesses, electromechanical products such as alternators, charging systems, die-cast components, plastic injection molding and white box contract manufacturing.

Seagull Lighting – Riverside, NJ (Company has closed due to 2008 residential housing market crisis) Oct 2009 – Nov 2011

Sourcing Director

Seagull Lighting designs and manufactures residential lights and fans. It has an extensive range of traditional decorative and LEDs lights for both outdoor and indoor applications. Responsible for supplier selection, streamlining production, establishing quality control processes, negotiating product pricing with lighting suppliers in China. Products include residential LEDs fixtures; fluorescents; and decorative lighting fixtures.

Led project production launch of flagship residential LED product with British and American colleagues and Hong Kong contract manufacturers. Successfully managed communication challenges between all parties through clear communication, good organization and language skills with strong cultural understanding.

Honeywell Scanning and Mobility (formerly Metrologic Instruments) – Blackwood, NJ 2007 -- 2009

Strategic Sourcing Manager – laid off after Honeywell acquired Metrologic Instruments.

Honeywell Scanning and Mobility was formerly Metrologic Instruments. The company makes scanners for the retail and merchandising markets. Its product portfolio includes hand-held, counter top, document and bar code scanners. Spearheaded strategic sourcing efforts in the Plastics Category to alleviate over dependency on dominant supplier source. Led and trained China sourcing group in methodical approach by building should-cost model, framing negotiation focus, formulating objective key parameters to evaluate potential suppliers. Drafted and consolidated with legal department purchasing contracts covering topics such as yearly productivity savings, commodity price and currency fluctuations, maintenance of safety stock, extended payment terms, and warranty requirements. Developed and trained China sourcing staff in negotiation techniques.

Achieved 29% cost reduction from existing flagship hand held scanner unit GSL, using strategic sourcing approach.

Achieved 20% cost reduction on existing table-top scanning unit. Actively managed project implementation from supplier selection, cost negotiation, project award, to production. Closely directed and monitored project progress by conducting weekly evening conference calls with Chinese team to ensure timely completion of project milestones.

Negotiated monetary compensation from China supplier responsible for delayed project completion. Successfully leveraged local China team in distant negotiation to achieve a further 10% reduction in tooling cost as compensation.

Guided China sourcing team in with strategic sourcing efforts in the electronic (active and passive component) category. Leveraged buying strengths through market 5-forces analysis, local supplier distributors’ interviews and reviews, and negotiations. Achieved savings in excess of 10%.

R&B Inc- Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania 2002 – 2007

Global Purchasing Manager - China Sourcing - laid off - position was outsourced to a Shanghai office

R&B Inc. is a leading supplier of automotive replacement parts & hardware, brake products, and household hardware to the Automotive Aftermarket and general merchandise markets. Its major customers include Pep Boys, Wal-Mart, Advance Auto, Auto Zone, and other household names common in the automotive and household DIY retail markets. Trained and guided suppliers to achieve better product quality. Successfully trained Chinese suppliers in applying proper method of manufacturing, testing, bill of material generation, quality control plan, and the qualification of manufacturing processes. Negotiated good payment term and product cost. Provided good leadership in project management, communication and problem resolution for new product introduction and logistical challenges on packaging, delivery, product specifications, and so on.

Resolved vendor technical difficulties and significantly improved product quality and throughput in the manufacture of Harmonic Balancers, Oil Cooler Lines, Exhaust Manifold Castings, Clock springs, Parking Brake Cables and others. These product offerings fetch a retail market value in excess of $10 million.

Successfully nurtured and instilled the essential discipline for the manufacture of quality products firmly among Chinese suppliers using meticulous, direct and clear operating procedures. Efforts resulted in significant improvements in first sample submittal turnaround time leading to striking improvement in new product roll out time.

Established and managed Shanghai Technical Office (comprising of 4 engineers and buyers) to consistent corporate expectations on product quality, inspection robustness, and cross-functional accountability issues.

Mack Trucks Division of Volvo Global Trucks – Allentown, Pennsylvania 1998 – 2002

Project Team Leader – Strategic Sourcing – left position to gain more experience in Low Cost Sourcing focus.

Mack Trucks, a dynamic division of Volvo Global Trucks enjoys a prominent market position in the North American heavy-duty commercial truck market. Led cross functional team projects to organize and streamline purchasing activities among the Mack, Renault, and Volvo groups. Managed strategic sourcing projects for combined divisional spends in the Vehicle Dynamics and Electrical Commodity groups. Performed advance purchasing studies for the Mack/Renault global convergence program. Led cross-functional team members in the US and France to benchmark advance concepts, negotiate with suppliers and proposed final directions. Led and encouraged the use of reverse auction techniques (with Freemarkets) on select commodity groups.

Achieved a 6% ($3.5m) savings following the 6-month AT Kearney’s strategic sourcing effort. Awarded special merit recognition for exceptional performance by Volvo Group Purchasing VP, Mr. Philippe Theolier.

Achieved a 9% savings on Mack’s purchases of truck alternators through reverse auction techniques.

Effectively led the different divisional purchasing groups (from Mack (US), Renault (France), and Volvo (Sweden)) to leverage combined purchasing spends on the Electrical Panel Switches to secure a 7% ($300K) savings over a two year period with the introduction of a South Korean manufacturer.

Sr Production Buyer / Function Team Leader

Performed tactical procurement duties for daily production needs with strong emphasis on accurate forecast, timely delivery, and supplier relation management. Led cross-functional team in implementing cost saving priorities. Negotiated payment terms, inventory levels, quality targets, lead-time reduction, and so forth. Developed commodity specific strategies, forward planning, established action plan to support decisions in make vs. buy, e-auctions, domestic vs. global sourcing. Conducted market/industry analysis. Managed commodities of HVAC and major electrical system components. Items included radiators, charge air coolers, condensers, cooling modules, vehicle lighting, batteries, alternators and panel switches.

Effectively managed a cost saving implementation program in the HVAC group identified through Strategic Sourcing of more than 5% ($700K) of commodity spend. Achieved annual cost saving target in the Electrical System group of more than 5% ($250K) with battery, 15% ($300K) with lighting, and 10% ($60K) with electrical switches.

Successfully negotiated a cost reduction for a mechanical fan clutch (a major part) through value analysis of the design and manufacture of the part.

Appraised the operational efficiency of vehicle lighting manufacturers in Taiwan. Upper management in a subsequent Strategic Sourcing program on the same commodity used the published survey for market analysis.

Related Experiences 1989-1998

Delphi Thermal and Interior Systems - Automotive HVAC systems -radiators, condensers, evaporators, etc.

Delphi Energy and Engine Management System -fuel system components such as throttle bodies, fuel injectors, and fuel rails.

Sr Manufacturing Engineer

-Lead engineer for managing China joint-venture activities in the international manufacturing group.

-Led localization efforts in Delphi Harrison-Shanghai joint venture and licensing arrangements per QS9000 requirements.

- Merit award for exceptional job performance presented by Head of International Manufacturing Group, Mr. Jerry Gurski,

- Merit award for conceiving and implementing cycle time and labor input improvements in the assembly of fuel rails with cost savings in excess of $450,000.

Education:

MBA, Finance and Entrepreneurship, The University of Rochester (Simon School). 1995

MS Mechanical Engineering, Penn State University. 1988

BS Mechanical Engineering (High Honors), University of Texas at Austin. 1986

Languages: Fluent in English, Mandarin, Cantonese (Hong Kong) and Taiwanese

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